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Donum Vitae
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  • FOREWORD
  *: The terms "zygote", "pre-embryo", "embryo" and "foetus" can indicate in the vocabulary of biology[...]


  • I RESPECT FOR HUMAN EMBRYOS
    • 1. WHAT RESPECT IS DUE TO THE HUMAN EMBRYO, TAKING INTO ACCOUNT HIS NATURE AND IDENTITY?
  *: The zygote is the cell produced when the nuclei of the two gametes have fused. 


  • I RESPECT FOR HUMAN EMBRYOS
    • 4. HOW IS ONE TO EVALUATE MORALLY RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTATION ON HUMAN EMBRYOS AND FOETUSES?
  *: Since the terms "research" and "experimentation" are often used equivalently and ambiguously, it i[...]


  • II INTERVENTIONS UPON HUMAN PROCREATION
  *: By the term heterologous artificial fertilization or procreation, the Instruction means techniques[...]
  **: By artificial homologous fertilization or procreation, the Instruction means the technique used to[...]


  • II INTERVENTIONS UPON HUMAN PROCREATION
    • 3. IS "SURROGATE" MOTHERHOOD MORALLY LICIT?
  *: By "surrogate mother" the Instruction means:  a) the woman who carries in pregnancy an embryo [...]


  • INTRODUCTION
    • 1. BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AND THE TEACHING
  1: ) POPE JOHN PAUL II, Discourse to those taking part in the 81st Congress of the Italian Society of [...]
  2: ) POPE PAUL VI, Discourse to the General Assembly of the United Nations Organization, 4 October 196[...]
  3: ) POPE PAUL VI, Homily during the Mass closing the Holy Year, 25 December 1975: AAS 68 (1976) 145; [...]
  4: ) POPE JOHN PAUL II, Discourse to those taking part in the 35th General Assembly of the World Medic[...]
  5: ) Cf. Declaration Dignitatis Humanae, 2. 
  6: ) Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes, 22; POPE JOHN PAUL II, Encyclical Redemptor Hominis, 8: AA[...]


  • INTRODUCTION
    • 2. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
  7: ) Cf. Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes, 35. 
  8: ) Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes, 15; cf. also POPE PAUL VI, Encyclical Populorum Progressio[...]


  • INTRODUCTION
    • 3. ANTHROPOLOGY AND PROCEDURES
  9: ) POPE JOHN PAUL II, Apostolic Exhortation Familiaris Consortio, 11: AAS 74 (1982) 92.
  10: ) Cf. POPE PAUL VI, Encyclical Humanae Vitae, 10: AAS 60 (1968) 487-488. 
  11: ) POPE JOHN PAUL II, Discourse to the members of the 35th General Assembly of the World Medical Ass[...]
  12: ) Cf. POPE JOHN PAUL II, Apostolic Exhortation Familiaris Consortio, 11: AAS 74 (1982) 91-92; cf. [...]


  • INTRODUCTION
    • 4. FUNDAMENTAL CRITERIA FOR A MORAL JUDGMENT
  13: ) SACRED CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH, Declaration on Procured Abortion, 9, AAS 66 ([...]
  14: ) POPE JOHN PAUL II, Discourse to those taking part in the 35th General Assembly of the World Medic[...]
  15: ) POPE JOHN XXIII, Encyclical Mater et Magistra, III: AAS 53 (1961) 447. 


  • INTRODUCTION
    • 5. TEACHINGS OF THE MAGISTERIUM
  16: ) Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes, 24. 
  17: ) Cf. POPE PIUS XII, Encyclical Humani Generis: AAS 42 (1950) 575; POPE PAUL VI, Professio Fidei: A[...]
  18: ) POPE JOHN XXIII, Encyclical Mater et Magistra, III: AAS 53 (1961) 447; cf. POPE JOHN PAUL II, Dis[...]
  19: ) Cf. Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes, 24. 
  20: ) Cf. POPE PIUS XII, Discourse to the Saint Luke Medical-Biological Union, 12 November 1944: Discor[...]
  21: ) Cf. Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes, 50. 
  22: ) Cf. Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes, 51: "When it is a question of harmonizing married love[...]


  • I RESPECT FOR HUMAN EMBRYOS
    • 1. WHAT RESPECT IS DUE TO THE HUMAN EMBRYO, TAKING INTO ACCOUNT HIS NATURE AND IDENTITY?
  23: ) Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes, 51. 
  24: ) HOLY SEE, Charter of the Rights of the Family, 4: L'Osservatore Romano, 25 November 1983. 
  25: ) SACRED CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH, Declaration on Procured Abortion, 12-13: AAS 6[...]
  26: ) Cf. POPE PAUL VI, Discourse to participants in the Twenty-third National Congress of Italian Cath[...]


  • I RESPECT FOR HUMAN EMBRYOS
    • 2. IS PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS MORALLY LICIT?
  27: ) The obligation to avoid disproportionate risks involves an authentic respect for human beings and[...]


  • I RESPECT FOR HUMAN EMBRYOS
    • 3. ARE THERAPEUTIC PROCEDURES CARRIED OUT ON THE HUMAN EMBRYO LICIT?
  28: ) POPE JOHN PAUL II, Discourse to the Participants in the 35th General Assembly of the World Medica[...]


  • I RESPECT FOR HUMAN EMBRYOS
    • 4. HOW IS ONE TO EVALUATE MORALLY RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTATION ON HUMAN EMBRYOS AND FOETUSES?
  29: ) Cf. POPE JOHN PAUL II, Address to a Meeting of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, 23 October 198[...]
  30: ) HOLY SEE, Charter of the Rights of the Family, 4b: L'Osservatore Romano, 25 November 1983. 
  31: ) Cf. POPE JOHN PAUL II, Address to the Participants in the Convention of the Pro-Life Movement, 3 [...]


  • I RESPECT FOR HUMAN EMBRYOS
    • 6. WHAT JUDGMENT SHOULD BE MADE ON OTHER PROCEDURES OF MANIPULATING EMBRYOS CONNECTED WITH THE "TECHNIQUES OF HUMAN REPRODUCTION"?
  32: ) No one, before coming into existence, can claim a subjective right to begin to exist; nevertheles[...]
  33: ) Cf. POPE JOHN PAUL II, Discourse to those taking part in the 35th General Assembly of the World [...]


  • II INTERVENTIONS UPON HUMAN PROCREATION
    • 1. WHY MUST HUMAN PROCREATION TAKE PLACE IN MARRIAGE?
  34: ) Cf. Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern world, Gaudium et Spes, 50. 
  35: ) Cf. POPE JOHN PAUL II, Apostolic Exhortation Familiaris Consortio, 14: AAS 74 ( 1982) 96. 


  • II INTERVENTIONS UPON HUMAN PROCREATION
    • 2. DOES HETEROLOGOUS ARTIFICIAL FERTILIZATION CONFORM TO THE DIGNITY OF THE COUPLE AND TO THE TRUTH OF MARRIAGE?
  36: ) Cf. POPE PIUS XII, Discourse to those taking part in the 4th International Congress of Catholic D[...]
  37: ) Cf. POPE PIUS XII, Discourse to those taking part in the 4th International Congress of Catholic D[...]


  • II INTERVENTIONS UPON HUMAN PROCREATION
    • 4. WHAT CONNECTION IS REQUIRED FROM THE MORAL POINT OF VIEW BETWEEN PROCREATION AND THE CONJUGAL ACT?
  38: ) POPE PAUL VI, Encyclical Letter Humanae Vitae, 12: AAS 60 (1968) 488-489. 
  39: ) Loc. cit., ibid., 489.
  40: ) POPE PIUS XII, Discourse to those taking part in the Second Naples World Congress on Fertility an[...]
  41: ) Code of Canon Law, Can. 1061. According to this Canon, the conjugal act is that by which the marr[...]
  42: ) Cf. Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes, 14. 
  43: ) Cf. POPE JOHN PAUL II, General Audience on 16 January 1980: Insegnamenti di Giovanni Paolo II, II[...]
  44: ) POPE JOHN PAUL II, Discourse to those taking part in the 35th General Assembly of the World Medic[...]
  45: ) Cf. Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes, 51. 
  46: ) Cf. Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes, 50. 


  • II INTERVENTIONS UPON HUMAN PROCREATION
    • 5. IS HOMOLOGOUS 'IN VITRO' FERTILIZATION MORALLY LICIT?
  47: ) Cf. POPE PIUS XII, Discourse to those taking part in the 4th International Congress of Catholic D[...]
  48: ) A similar question was dealt with by POPE PAUL VI, Encyclical Humanae Vitae, 14: AAS 60 (1968) 4[...]
  49: ) Cf. supra: I, 1 ff. 
  50: ) POPE JOHN PAUL II, Apostolic Exhortation Familiaris Consortio. 14: AAS 74 (1982) 96. 


  • II INTERVENTIONS UPON HUMAN PROCREATION
    • 6. HOW IS HOMOLOGOUS ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION TO BE EVALUATED FROM THE MORAL POINT OF VIEW?
  51: ) Cf. Response of the Holy Office, 17 March 1897: DS 3323; POPE PIUS XII, Discourse to those taking[...]
  52: ) POPE PIUS XII, Discourse to the Italian Catholic Union of Midwives, 29 October 1951: AAS 43 ( 195[...]
  53: ) POPE PIUS XII, Discourse to those taking part in the 4th International Congress of Catholic Docto[...]
  54: ) SACRED CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH, Declaration on Certain Questions Concerning Se[...]


  • II INTERVENTIONS UPON HUMAN PROCREATION
    • 7. WHAT MORAL CRITERION CAN BE PROPOSED WITH REGARD TO MEDICAL INTERVENTION IN HUMAN PROCREATION?
  55: ) Cf. POPE JOHN XXIII, Encyclical Mater et Magistra, III: AAS 53 (1961) 447.
  56: ) Cf. POPE PIUS XII, Discourse to those taking part in the 4th International Congress of Catholic D[...]


  • II INTERVENTIONS UPON HUMAN PROCREATION
    • 8. THE SUFFERING CAUSED BY INFERTILITY IN MARRIAGE
  57: ) Cf. POPE PIUS XII, Discourse to the taking part in the Second Naples World Congress on Fertility [...]
  58: ) Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes, 50.
  59: ) POPE JOHN PAUL II, Apostolic Exhortation Familiaris Consortio, 14: AAS 74 (1982) 97.


  • III. MORAL AND CIVIL LAW
  60: ) Cf. Declaration Dignitatis Humanae, 7.


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